Browsing Department of Information Science and Media Studies by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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Analogical Reuse of Object-Oriented Analysis Models
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-05-29)Software reuse involves using again software artifacts that have been successfully built before.To be successful with software reuse, techniques for reuse must be integrated into both theinformation system development ... -
Automated analysis of Norwegian text
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-28)In this thesis we look at how we can develop automated analysis tools for Norwegian text. We look at 3 different tasks: Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging, Named-Entity Chunking (NEC), and Named-Entity Recognition (NER). For our ... -
Changing Narratives. Five Essays on Hollywood History
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Cinema in Ghana. History, Ideology and Popular Culture
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-11-09)In spite of many years of research, theorizing, debate and contestation, there is always freshness about discourses on national cinema because of its contextual transformations. More importantly, apart from several European ... -
Classification: Assumptions and Implications for Conceptual Modeling
(Doctoral thesis, 2005-05-13)Classification is generally held to be of fundamental importance to the analysis and design of software applications. This is clearly reflected in data modelling terminology, in which terms like classification, concept, ... -
Climate Change Journalism in Bangladesh. Professional Norms and Attention in Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-10-26)Generally, journalistic issue attention is shaped by the importance of the issue to the target audience and professional norms attached to the issue are supplied by journalists’ understanding of the issue derived from ... -
Collaboration in Online Communities: Exploring Finnish Wikipedia
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-09-20)Online communities have risen to a great social and economic importance during the last two decades. Many online communities are oriented towards content production, and Wikipedia is one of the most prominent instances of ... -
Collaborative video editing
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-01-26)Samarbeid i videoredigering Denne avhandlingen tar opp følgende spørsmål: Hvordan kan vi støtte samarbeid i videoredigering? I ulike anvendelsesområder, som skriving og design, er bruk av samarbeidsverktøy utbredt. ... -
Computational Journalism. When journalism meets programming
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-08)Digital data sources and platforms allow journalists to produce news in new and different ways. The shift from an analog to digital workflow introduces computation as a central component of news production. This enables ... -
Delineating boundariesbetween 'us' and 'them': A reception study of the representation of Muslim characters in the television serial 24
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-11-07)This thesis presents an examination of the US television serial 24’s representation of Muslim characters, and it explores to what extent the perception of these characters can be determined by the cultural and ethnic ... -
Development of a systematic method for assessing HIV-indicator data reporting in Kenya
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-08-24)Background: In a bid to eradicate the HIV epidemic, Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) have taken strides in strengthening monitoring and evaluation through building capacity in data collection and data use. As such, ... -
Digital influence, digital platforms and disconnected presence : Long-form leisure reading in the era of ubiquitous digital connectivity
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-24)Avhandlingen utforsker hva digitalisering gjør med lesing og utgivelse av litteratur som leses for sin egen del. Det handler om langlesing av litteratur for allmennmarkedet og hvordan kontinuerlig digital påkobing preger ... -
Drawing visual query images : use, users and usability of query by drawing interfaces for content based image retrieval systems
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-12-14)Query by Drawing (QBD) is an approach to Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems where users express their image needs by drawing an image representative of the images they wish to retrieve. CBIR is based on comparison ... -
E-learning for Change in a Large Organization - Identifying Problems And Opportunities In The Implementation Of E-learning
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-06-20)Taking e-learning into use in the workplace, represents a major challenge for the adopterorganization. In practice, many e-learning implementations do not achieve the expectedoutcomes. While the mainstream literature on ... -
eLuna : A Co-Design Framework for Mixed Reality Narrative Game- Based Learning
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-09-29)De siste tiårs utvidede fokus på læring utenfor skolen har bidratt til økt anvendelse av vitensentre som læringsarena for barn i grunnskole og videregående utdanning. En læringsløype er en type integrert læringsmiljø der ... -
Enterprise Modeling to Support ICT-Enabled Process Change. Context for and consequences of enterprise modeling in initiatives that combine process change and information and communication technology
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-10-26)This thesis presents findings from a multiple case study of enterprise modeling use in initiatives that combine process change and information and communication technology. The study covers initiatives where models are ... -
Erstellung von digitalen Lernangeboten. Empirische Untersuchung der Projektphasen, Personen und Interaktionen bei Medienentwicklungsprojekten, Qualitätsaspekte und deren Zusammenhänge mit den Projektprozessen
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-05-25)This study focuses on the processes during a project for developing elearning modulesin universities, called media development projects. For the research of the projectprocesses the following three aspects are analyzed: ... -
Exploring Investigative Journalism. Boundaries, Epistemologies and Visibilities
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-19)Denne avhandlingen utforsker ulike former for visuelle utrykk og institusjonaliserte epistemiske praksiser i undersøkende journalistikk gjennom å studere hvordan undersøkende journalister sannsynliggjør sine påstander og ... -
Gjennom fokustrengsel. Lærerutdanningen i møte med IKT og nye vurderingsformer
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-12-01)Denne avhandlingen er en beskrivelse og analyse av erfaringene fra et tre-årig helhetlig, IKT-orientert innovasjonsprosjekt i førskole- og allmennlærerutdanningen ved Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund. I et økologisk perspektiv ... -
Implementing Web Accessibility Policy. Case Studies of the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-25)The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has had the unintended effect of producing inequalities between people with disabilities, who experience barriers using ICT, and others. Despite the efforts ...